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FULL TITLE: 7 Olentangy middle school students charged for allegedly putting urine, semen into food served to teachers Seven teenagers are now charged for putting bodily fluids inside the food that they fed to their teachers. Delaware County prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against the Olentangy Hyatts Middle School students. The incident happened in May when prosecutors say the students, all 14-year-old boys, concocted a foul plan to taint food they served to their teachers. According to prosecutors, they did that with their bodily fluids. This was part of a cooking contest in their class- where teachers were judging dishes prepared...

Israel was close to launching an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in 2012, despite opposition from the Obama Administration, the New York Times reported. Israel had delayed a joint military exercise which had been scheduled for spring, 2012, prompting concerns among American officials that an attack on Iran was imminent. The administration sent a series of officials to Israel to "Bibisit" Prime Minister Netanyahu and convince him to hold off on any attack every few weeks. In addition, then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta showed then Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak video of an American strike on an exact replica of...

Five Democratic presidential candidates in the span of 24 hours have released sweeping plans to address climate change, ahead of a series of town halls devoted to the issue. On Wednesday, California Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg each unveiled their climate plans. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Obama cabinet member Julián Castro each laid out theirs on Tuesday. The flurry of plans comes ahead of a CNN town hall event on global warming, which 10 Democrats seeking the White House plan to attend. The forums come after liberals had...

FULL TITLE: Foster mother is charged over death of one-year-old boy who was left in hot car at shopping mall while she worked inside A foster mother has been charged with the death of a toddler who died after being left in a hot car at the mall last week. Dawn Aberson-Vanden Broecke, 42, was charged on Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter. On August 29, she left the baby boy, who has not been named, in the parking lot outside Lowes at a shopping center in Pineville, North Carolina. Temperatures soared into the 80s and the boy died as a result....

Maxine Waters, the intelligent Democrat, crawled out of a hole today to appear with conspiracy theorist Chris Hayes on MSNBC. Mad Maxine told Chris Hayes that “Terrible Trump” was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend. Wow.

SICK. Ocasio-Cortez Helps Raise Money for Jailed Antifa Terrorists Who Threw Urine Bombs and Attacked Police Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pushed a fundraiser for bail money for a group of far left Boston protesters that included members of the violent Antifa movement. The arrests, 36 in all, came after a “Straight Pride” parade in Boston, Massachusetts, this weekend, according to the Boston Herald.

One way to support the local LGBTQ community impacted by Boston’s white supremacist parade? Contribute to the Bail Fund for the activists who put themselves on the line protecting the Boston community:https://fundrazr.com/61YIs8?ref=ab_7ZU6lUcHlAs7ZU6lUcHlAs … (Any $ left over goes to @MassBailFund+@Boston_GLASS) https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1167927769105219585 … Solidarity Against Hate Legal Defense Fund Known fascists and white supremacists, under the front organization Super Happy Fun America, are descending on Boston for “Straight Pride” on Saturday, 8/31. As we have for the last 3 years, Boston... fundrazr.com Ayanna Pressley ✔ @AyannaPressley Join me right now in making a contribution. TY to the allies & accomplices who...

Union auto workers voted, by a large majority, to authorize strikes while the United Auto Workers (UAW) union negotiates contracts with General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and Fiat Chrysler. UAW members voted about 96 percent to allow union workers to strike while UAW leaders negotiate contracts with GM, Ford, and Chrysler — a vote that merely authorizes strikes and does not indicate that strikes will be held. UAW President Gary Jones said in a statement:

David Simon, a former journalist for The Baltimore Sun and executive producer of HBO's The Wire (2002-2008), used Twitter to express his desire that God use Hurricane Dorian to destroy Mar-a-Lago, a National Historic Landmark sometimes used for presidential meetings that is owned by President Donald Trump, who refers to it as the "Winter White House." "After the last three years, the work of a just and righteous God cannot be considered credible evidence of His goodness unless He picks all of Mar-a-lago up by the roots, sails it across half of Florida and heaves it on top of Doral...

A University of Illinois student was charged with a hate crime on Tuesday for allegedly placing a noose in a campus residence hall. Andrew Smith, a 19-year-old sophomore, was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and committing a hate crime, which is a felony, after students found a noose hanging inside an elevator over the weekend, according to university police. News of the finding began to make rounds on social media as students expressed their outrage. That's when a woman who said she was with Smith when he tied the noose reportedly called campus police to report him.

[Catholic Caucus] New Rome Pastoral Guidelines Raise Eyebrows Vicar general of Rome establishes guidelines to build the 'Church of the future' ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Recently, vicar general of his holiness for the diocese of Rome, Cdl. Angelo De Donatis, was the subject of much controversy in Italian Catholic circles for his choice of unprecedentedly unconventional language to address the Roman clergy. A couple of letters delivered to Roman parishes in July 2019 were unusually informal, as they also contained specifications that could be read as contrary to what the Church teaches about cardinal virtues. The letters aimed to offer guidelines for the formation of the new pastoral teams for the...

When legislatures create laws that call for actions to be taken that contradict constitutional law, they exceed the boundaries of their delegated powers, contradict the law of the land, and set up conditions leading to violation of civil rights. Executives who sign those pieces of legislation into law also act corruptly and in violation of constitutional law. Red flag laws, for example, which permit circumvention of due process, are unconstitutional. Yet judges use them as a basis for issuing orders to confiscate firearms. When they do so, they are violating constitutional law. Judicial orders that call for confiscation of firearms...

It was apparently a slip of the paw that cost a man from North Carolina $70 after his dog ended up ordering pay-per-view porn on cable TV. Thomas Barnes' dog, a bichon frise called Marino, jumped on the bed of his owner and in doing so stepped on the remote control inadvertently ordering the Hustler Channel. Upon seeing the risque images on his screen, Barnes claims he called cable company DirectTV within minutes to explain what had happened and to cancel the x-rated service.

‘The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite,’ cautioned the great American playwright Tennessee Williams. He might have been talking about Prince Harry after the sixth in line to the British throne’s latest ridiculous display of two-faced, disingenuous planet-saving drivel. It’s almost beyond parody that ‘every footprint counts’ Harry would respond to all the negative press surrounding his recent orgy of private jet use by flying to Holland to lecture us all yet again about how to protect the environment. Yet there he was, back at his favorite preaching pulpit, banging on about the...

My how things have changed: Curtis Gordon - Caffeine and Nicotine (1954). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), negligible just three years ago, now amount to 10% of the global market and at 22 million tonnes so far this year are equal to the total volumes pumped out in 2018, Refinitiv data showed. The data, comprised of tracked individual journeys made by LNG tankers from supply source to destination, also showed LNG production hit an all-time high last month of 31 million tonnes. As global volumes grow, Qatar, for years the world’s largest LNG supplier, lost market share to Australia, which exported more LNG than any other country in the past...

Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) on Wednesday announced he will not seek reelection to a sixth term in Congress, adding to the rush of Texas Republican lawmakers heading for the exit. Flores, the first Republican to represent the Waco area since Reconstruction, won his seat in the Tea Party wave of 2010. He beat then-Rep. Chet Edwards (D) by a wider margin than any other challenger who ousted a sitting Democrat that year. He said in a statement he intended to honor a term-limit pledge he made when he first ran for office. “After much prayer over the past few days...

Black voters in key big cities like Detroit are warning Democrats that being against President Donald Trump will not be enough to motivate black Democrats to go to the polls in 2020.

[Catholic Caucus] Nearly 200 scholars demand removed JPII Institute profs be reinstated ROME, September 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― Almost 200 scholars have signed an open letter to the leaders of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, protesting the removal of two senior faculty members. In the short August 20 letter, addressed to Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the grand chancellor of the institute, and Monsignor Pierangelo Sequeri, its president, the academicians ask for the reinstatement of professors Monsignor Livio Melina and Fr. José Noriega. “We have learned with great concern that Professors Livio Melina and...

A transgender woman from El Salvador, she moved to Washington, D.C., in the late 1980s to escape the country's civil war. It was a time when AIDS was already devastating an entire generation of gay men and transgender women in the United States. Homophobia and transphobia were part of everyday life, from finding housing or landing a job to facing all-too-real threats of violence.Corado quickly got involved in community activism — while also navigating both her transition and learning she was HIV-positive.Because of complications from her HIV medication, she developed a condition that affects how the body stores and distributes...